Clothes-line support.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

A. MALSIN. CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3 0, 1907.

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ALBERT MALSIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTI-[ES-LINE SUPPORT. 1 i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed November 30, 1907. Serial No. 404,559.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MALsIN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novel and useful improvement in clothes line supports.

The object is to enable a line to be run from a house window to a pole in such a manner that the entire length of the line may be utilized for hanging clothes for drying.

Another object is to avoid danger in the use of the line by so arranging it that the user is not obliged to lean out of the window.

The invention consists essentially in means for supporting the line at the window, and also means for supporting it at the pole so that an endless line or cable may be employed which can be moved around the supporting means, both at the window and at the pole, so as to permit clothes to be attached thereto throughout the entire length of the line, thus securing efliciency, compactness and'facility of manipulation.

The invention also comprises various details and peculiarities in the construction and arrangement of the various parts, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved clothes line support, shown as applied for practical use. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of one of. the supporting de vices at the window. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is an end view. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the supporting device employed at a point distant from the window, as, for example, with a supporting pole.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the different figures of the drawing.

3 denotes a window in a building, the same given simply by way of example, it being the window of an ordinary flat or apartment situated at a distance from the ground. It is customary for occupants of flats, in hanging clothes for drying, to employ a line which is stretched from a window to some supporting device at the rear of the building,

like a pole, as 2, similar to an ordinary telegraph pole. The way of arranging the line heretofore has commonly been attended with great danger in the use, for the person hanging the clothes on the line, being accustomed to lean from the window, has some times been precipitated to the ground below, in case of the sudden breaking of the line or one of its fixtures. In trying to make the line more serviceable and avoid the danger incident to its use, and thus promote the drying of clothes in connection with small apartments of the kind I have referred to, I have devised the improved supporting means of which the present invention consists.

At each side 4 of the window 3, I employ a fixture as is clearly shown in Fig. 1, the detailed construction of which is indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. These fixtures support the clothes line 1 at the window 3. Each fixture consists of a plate 5 secured by means of wood screws 6, or other suitable devices, to the window frame 4. See Figs. 2, 3 and 4. Pivoted to the lug 18 on the plate 5 by means of a pivot 11 is an arm 7 which projects outwardly a short distance from the side 4 of the window. This arm 7 is provided with a lug 10 through which passes a screw 9 having a small operating wheel or handle 8, the end of said screw 9 bearing against the plate 5. By rotating the wheel 8, j the screw 9 will be turned, and the result will be the adjustment of the arm 7 up or down upon its pivot 11, so that it can be made to occupy the position shown in full lines, or that in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The object of this adjustment is to so place the arm 7 that it will hold the clothes line 1 in the proper way, as I shall now more fully explain.

Pivoted to the outer end of the arm 7 is an angular arm 14, the pivoting being accomplished by means of a pin 19 which is screwthreaded at one end and provided with a clamping nut 15. By loosening the nut 15, the pivot will be loosened and the arm 14 can be swung back or forth in a horizontal plane. Thus it will be seen that while the arm 7 is adjustable in a vertical plane, by means of the screw 9, the arm 14, carried by the arm is adjustable in a horizontal plane, by means of its pivot and nut 15. The arm 7 carries a horizontal peripherally grooved pulley 12 whose pivot 13 is preferably held in a lug 20 cast on the sideof the arm 7. The arm 14 carries a vertical peripherally grooved pulley 16 which is journaled in a frame 21 mounted on the end of arm 14. Alongside of the vertical pulley 16 is a curved clothes guard 17, consisting of a bent.

piece of metal of suitable length and width which passes horizontally across the side of the vertical pulley 16 at a short distance therefrom, being suitably curved, as shown in Fig. 2, and having the function of causing the clothes that may be hung on the line which runs over the pulley 16 to clear the pulley by passing on the outside of the guard 17, and thus preventing any entangling of the clothes with the pulley and its journal and supporting frame.

The clothes line 1 passes over the vertical pulley 16 lying in the peripheral groove thereof, as indicated in Fig. 2, and also passes around the horizontal pulley 12 lying in the peripheral groove thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. One of these supporting fixtures which I have just described is attached to each of the side pieces 4 of the window 3, and the line passes around them as is obvious. The adjusting means of each fixture, which I have just described, permitting the raising or lowering of the arm 7 and the deflecting of the arm 14 in a horizontal plane, enable the line 1 to be carried at the required angle; and the provision of two fixtures, one at each side of the window 3, enables a portion of the line, as that shown at 1*, to lie directly across the face of the window, so that when the sash is open this line will be in readiness for use, and clothes can be at tached thereto without the user being required to lean out of the window, and thus the line can be employed with perfect safety.

The fixture carried by the pole 2, around which fixture the line 1 runs, is similar in some respects to the window fixtures. It consists of a plate 21 secured to the pole 2, to which plate is pivoted an arm 22 by means of pivot 23. A screw 24, having a wheel or handle 25, operates through an internally screw threaded lug 26 on the arm 22, and has the function of raising and lowering the arm 22 in like manner as the arm 7 of each window fixture is raised and lowered. by means of the screw 9. The arm 22 carries a horizontal peripherally grooved pulley 27, whose journal pin 28 is held in a lug 29. And the arm 22, furthermore, carries a pair of vertical peripherally grooved pulleys 30 and 31, whose frames 32 are supported on the enlarged end 33 of the arm 22. These pulleys 30 and 31 carry the line 1, as shown in Fig. 5,

which also passes around the horizontal pulley 27. Each of the pulleys 30 and 31 is provided with a clothes guard 34 similar to the guard 17 of the window fixture. Obviously,

' the arm 22 may be raised and lowered for the purpose of adjusting the horizontal pulley 17, as also the vertical pulleys 30 and 31 at the proper angle to duly receive and direct the movement of the line 1 at its supporting point near the pole 2. And when it is being moved for the purpose of hanging clothes thereon, it is obvious that the clothes already hung thereon will easily pass over the clothes guards 34 without becoming entangled with the pulleys 30 and 31, and the around the grooved pulley 27 without becoming entangled therewith.

with this line consists of a clip 35 having a spring 36 for keeping the two sides 37 normally pressed together, between which two sides 37 the clothes are gripped and held. This clip 35 is provided with aspring clasp consisting of two spring parts 38 and 39, pivoted together at 40, and having curved ends which tightly bite and grip the clothes line 1. If desired, clothes pins of this character may be left upon the line at all times without removal, thereby simplifying the use of the line, making it unnecessary to apply the pins each time clothes are hung. Whenever it is desired to hang the clothes, the user simply lays hold of the clips 35 by gripping the upper ends of the interpivoted parts 37, and releases the lower ends of those parts so that when they are brought together again over the edge of the clothes, the spring 36 will'hold the sides 37 tightly gripped.

Very many changes in the construction and arrangement of the parts may be made without going outside of the invention. Instead of two window fixtures, one may be employed with good effect. Instead of one pole fixture, there may be places where two would be more serviceable. The number of lines 1 may be multiplied in order to increase the efficiency of the device, and the size and location of the pulleys, as well as their number, in each fixture may be modified considerably without exceeding the scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. In a clothes line support, a vertical pulley over which the line travels, and a clothes guard consisting of a curved plate located on the pulley shaft on the outside of the pulley to prevent the clothes from becoming entangled therewith.

2. In a clothes line support, the combination of a pivoted arm, means for adjusting it in a vertical plane consisting of an adjusting screw, a horizontal pulley carried by said arm, a second arm pivoted to the first so as to be independently adjustable, and a V61; tical pulley carried by said second arm.-

clothes will also surely and accurately pass The clothes pin preferably employed 3. In a clothes line support, a distant fiX- the line travels around the pulleys of the ture consisting of an adjustable arm having distant fixture and the window fixture. 10 a horizontal pulley and having also vertical Signed at New York city, this 14th day of pulleys, and a window fixture including an November, 1907.

adjustable arrn having a horizontal pulley l ALBERT MALSIN. and a vertical pulley, that portion of the Witnesses: arm carrying the latter pulley being inde JOHN H. HAZELTON,

pendently adjustable, all arranged so that O. B. SGHROEDER. 

